A Promising Lad
[Ace POV],
"After we got separated, we were pursued by the remaining men of the lowly king who ambushed us, and in order to avoid being caught, we just kept running until we got lost but we did lose our pursuers because of this," Caleb said as he turned to look at Andrew Dawn anxiously while observing the expression on his face to get a clue about his mood.
Andrew Dawn only nodded and spoke when he heard this.
"Continue," he simply said, and Caleb took a deep breath when he heard this before continuing speaking from where he had stopped.
"This is what happened after we separated from your battle with the lowly king," Caleb said as he once again spoke a certain rude word, but judging by the king's and those who heard this, it was clear that they didn't mind because they all despised the opposition who disrupted their plans.
While this was happening, Caleb continued to speak.
"Since we ended up in an unfamiliar environment after losing our pursuers, we decided to take a short break and stopped running.
We could have gone back the way we came, but since no one knew if the people who pursued us in the first place were still there, we decided to just look for another location to stay in the environment we ended up in and wait for a few minutes to pass before heading back here, given that we still had the map function to bring us back to the settlement despite being lost.
At least, that was the plan before Rocky messed everything up," Caleb said, pausing to exhale a long breath before looking around at everyone's actions.
When he saw that everyone was eager to hear what he had to say, he quickly spoke to avoid trouble.
"Because our pursuers did not simply pursue us and attack us every now and then, we had to give the treasure to the relatively weakest one among us, who happened to be Rocky, while I and the remaining who were moving turned to defend against their attacks that were meant to slow us down but somehow, we were still able to come out of it together just for Rocky to suddenly make a stupid action,"
When Caleb got to this part of his speech, he abruptly stopped because he noticed that everyone in the dining room was staring intently at him.
When Caleb saw this, he took a big gulp before continuing to speak.
"Because of our heightened senses that were still up even after getting our pursuers off out tail, Rocky accidentally used the item the king gave us a means of attack due to a sudden fright from the monster that wanted to ambush us or should I say a small group of monsters", Caleb could feel the pressure rising in the room before he could finish what he was saying.
It was obvious the king was angry again, which was understandable because everything still sounded ridiculously stupid even to the person narrating everything that happened, and because of the sudden change in the atmosphere, Caleb watched the words he spoke next carefully in order to avoid further infuriating the king as he continued to narrate how the monsters who wanted to ambush them were earth rats to how they suddenly became intoxicated with the item the king gave them and took it till the moment they got pursued by mutated earth rats in the rocky hill that served as the earth rats den.
It wasn't until he got to the part about how he escaped the mutated earth rats only to end up in a near-death state that he stopped, but by then, everyone who was looking at him was suspicious.
Caleb sighed as he saw this because it was exactly what he expected.
He had expected the king to be suspicious of him because, while he had said he was close to death a few hours before, his current state looked nothing like anything he had said, which was rather contradictory, so without waiting for anyone to open their mouth to speak and question him, Caleb began to speak again from when he first met Ace.
"So you're saying you're in this state now because of the magical 'medicine' you got from the person you met in the tunnel?" Andrew Dawn asked slowly as he stared at Caleb, to which Caleb replied with a positive nod.
When Andrew Dawn saw this, he spoke up again.
"Do you happen to have this magical 'medicine' on you right now?" Andrew Dawn inquired, and Caleb found himself at a loss for words as he realized the king was still suspicious of him.
When Caleb saw this, he quickly thought of a response before speaking slowly to the king.
"I don't have this medicine on me right now because I didn't have enough money to buy about of the medicine bottle, but I did get the contact of the person who sold the medicine to me," Caleb said, as the king, who had heard the first part of what he was saying with a disinterested expression before, had a curious expression on his face.
"Oh"
"What is his name?" Caleb responded quickly to Andrew Dawn's question.
"Ace Blaze"
"Ace Blaze?"
"Ace Blaze"
"Ace Blaze," you say. Andrew Dawn muttered in response to the unexpected familiar name that came out of Caleb's mouth, only to turn to his wife and see a surprised expression on her face as well, but thinking it was too soon to start assuming things, Andrew Dawn turned to Caleb and asked him to describe the person who sold him the medicine.
Caleb began to have hope after seeing his King suddenly become curious about the boy who sold him the magical 'medicine,' and he described Ace's appearance to the teeth.
When Andrew Dawn heard Caleb's description of this 'Ace Blaze,' he turned to smile at his wife before speaking.
"Do you think it's him?" Andrew Dawn smiled as he asked his wife.
"It does look like his description, and if he is truly the one, I can only say that he is still a promising lad even in this world," the queen said with a short laugh, adding, "hopefully we will hear from our girl soon," to which Andrew Dawn solemnly nodded before turning to face the nervous Caleb.
When Caleb saw this, he knew it was finally time to know his verdict, and he really hoped it didn't affect his son because that's why he does all of these things, so when he saw Andrew Dawn open his mouth to speak, he hoped it was a punishment he could afford.
"As a result of your actions, your-
Meanwhile, in another dimension, a young boy gradually opened his eyes.
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